02430nam a22003494a 4500 ebr10231503 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070525s2008 nju sb 001 0 eng 2007022050 9780813542713 (hardcover : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)236080724 n-us--- HV8073 .F522 2008eb 363.25 22 Fisher, Jim, 1939- Forensics under fire [electronic resource] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / Jim Fisher. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008. xi, 324 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index. Forensic pathologists from hell : bungled autopsies, bad calls, and blown cases -- A question of credibility : bad reputations and the politics of death -- The sudden infant death debate Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen syndrome by proxy and Meadow's law -- Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation? -- Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide? -- Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradise -- Fingerprints never lie : except in Scotland -- Shoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysis -- Bite mark identification : do teeth leave prints? -- Ear-mark identification : emerging science or bad evidence? -- Expert versus expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case -- John Mark Karr : DNA Trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey case -- Hair and fiber identification : the inexact science -- DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people -- Bullet identification : FBI style overselling the science -- The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Criminal investigation United States. Crime scene searches United States. Forensic sciences United States. Evidence, Criminal United States. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10231503 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 39764 39764